The Unseen Connection Between Smoking And Eating Junk Food

Introduction

How would you like to know the connection between smoking and eating junk food ; your beloved snacks and sweets?

Some people paint a black and white picture on smoking and don’t care to think about the consequences of their sugar consumption, or they just don’t care.

This post will show you how your constant consumption of sugary and junk foods can be as hazardous to your health as smoking.

Let’s look at it carefully,

When you smoke, you increase your chances of getting cancer and this shortens life drastically.

We all know this.

It is even advertised on the side of every cigarette pack.

But what about junk food?

Why isn’t there a sign in front of every fast food joint about the dangers of continually eating junk food?

Maybe it’s because they think junk isn’t as addictive as tobacco.

But it is, you see?

Because, like nicotine, tobacco and other highly addictive substances, consuming foods high in fat and calories like the ones you buy from the fast food joint brings a feeling of pleasure to your brain.

The more junk food you have, the more you want leading you to crave a higher level of the same food to get more pleasure out of it.

Because, who doesn’t want more of what makes them feel good?

It is no wonder kids and even some adults who get a taste of junk food usually want more of the same every day.

What does this lead to? Bad Health!

What does it lead to?

It leads to obesity

Which in turn leads to a decrease in the quality of your health.

Then some serious health issues begin to come up; like a minor heart attack.

Then a major heart attack.

And then, the worst!

This is the usual route that is expected from consumption of high amounts of junk food.

These luxuries are still a part of many people’s lives and even though many of them will read this, it is not likely to dissipate anytime soon; despite the constant criticism they get for the damage they cause to our bodies when taken in excess.

I just want this little post to create awareness in its own way.

But, let me not be a hypocrite.

I occasionally eat junk when I’m hungry, not at home and when that’s the only option.

They both clog up your arteries.

Cigarettes clog up your arteries that pumps blood to the vital organs in your body. So does junk because of the trans-fat in them.

They lead to death.

Cigarettes lets off over 4,000 separate chemicals in your body according to advancedphysicalmedicine.org, and 50 of those chemicals have been known to lead to cancer.

It has always been clear that both cigarettes and junk food have negatives effects on your health; and that maybe people don’t care of just choose to ignore it and continue taking part in their luxurious comforts.

Junk also leads to death because when you eat too much junk, you add weight and then… I’m pretty sure you know the rest.